Columns quilt is now a top

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's been cold in the American Midwest, and our snow has not melted!  I should have spent more time in my sewing nook but the past week just sped away.

I did get my Columns quilt in feedsack fabrics finished into a flimsy or top though.

Last week I described my progress.

Now I have added the setting triangles and sewn the rows together.  This pattern looks so much better with the blocks set on point.

And a close up of a corner:

The top is 56 inches by about 85 inches in size.  Kona navy blue is the fabric in the dark squares, and Kona Snow is the fabric in the white squares and setting triangles.  Plans are to have a white backing, and my local long arm quilter do some sort of swirling quilting pattern.  Not yet though.  I enjoyed making this top.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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A columns quilt project in feedsack fabrics

 Good day and welcome to my blog.

We are shoveled out in the great American Midwest (20+ inches of snow) but not going anywhere.  I am baking bread and updating my blog.

I have been working on a columns quilt pattern.  One starts with a simple block with a diagonal pattern:

The 'black' squares are actually a deep navy blue, but they look black against the Kona Snow white squares.  I cut 3 inch squares of feedsacks and vintage fabrics for this.  They finish at 2.5 inches.  Note the printed patterns on the vintage fabrics are larger and different from the 1930's reproduction fabrics that are available now.

Set out the blocks, finishing at 10 inches, and rotate some to get the overall pattern:

Keep going.  I laid the initial blocks on point out on my floor (I don't have a design wall).

No, not enough blocks.  Sew some more blocks.

That's better.  The sides and top and bottom will be filled in with Kona snow setting squares.  I had hoped to get that done yesterday but ran out of time.

Leave piles of feedsacks collected over time on the worktable.  I'll put them away later.

As mentioned, I have made this pattern before.  The start of the old project is described in this Blog Post, and the finish in this Blog Post.

Using repro fabrics and a finished square size of 1.5 inches, the previous quilt looks like this:

Today: cut those setting squares and start assembling.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss (she featured my last blog post, thank you!), Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Columns quilt finish and some new blocks

 Hello and welcome to a very warm day in the American Midwest.  I have a finish to report.  According to past blog entries, I finished this top in 2016, and it languished for a while.  I had thought to hand quilt cables in the white parts of the top, but this year I knew this just wasn't going to happen.  So off to the long arm quilter (Boone's Quilting).

I am calling it my Columns quilt, and it is based on a vintage quilt I saw on ebay and could not afford.  I studied the ebay pictures and came up with a pattern for myself.  I used actual feedsacks and vintage fabrics that I have collected for a real vintage look.  A closer look:

Fabric squares were cut at 2 inches, to finish at 1.5 inches - postage stamp size.  

A close up of some of the fabric used.  The quilt came out square (76 inches) and I wish now I had added a white border at the top and bottom of the quilt, but it's too late now!

I have also been piecing madly in my sewing space.  I have been using my feedsack fabrics to make the flower garden pattern from the book Scrap Therapy: Scraps Plus One by Joan Ford.  I found this book in my local library.  You make two different blocks:

And set them alternately to make the whole pattern.  Here are nine blocks:

Feedsack fabric is more loosely woven than quilting or garment cotton and stretches easily.  You may need to trim:

Final project size will by 4 blocks by 5 blocks.  The blocks finished at 15 inches square, so this will be a reasonable quilt size.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday wait loss, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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